八年的预算削减重塑了英国社会，使其不再像其他西欧国家，
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• “这是对我们的身份的攻击。社会的整个构造正在瓦解。”
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在一个拥有传奇公共福利历史的国家，紧缩的表现无处不在：
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颁布这些政策的保守党政府承诺“所有人的繁荣”，
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2018年5月28日 星期一
衡量社会福祉的指标表明英国社会生活质量在恶化
2018年5月27日 星期日
Opinion: Marks and Spencer used to be the retailer of choice for the small-town social climber
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Marks & Spencer - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marks_%26_Spencer
Marks and Spencer plc (also known as M&S) is a major British multinational retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London. It is listed on the London ...
Operating income: £690.6 million (2017)
Industry: Retail
Number of employees: 84,939 (2017)
Net income: £115.7 million (2017)
The Independent
In the early 1980s you knew you were in a respectable household if they offered you a slice of cake from M&S. My mam and gran knew this well
Opinion: Marks and Spencer used to be the retailer of choice for the small-town social climber – ...
In the early 1980s you knew you were in a respectable household if they offered you a slice of cake from M&S. My mam and gran knew this well
INDEPENDENT.CO.UK
2018年5月25日 星期五
Homebase 連鎖集團易主.......Thousands of jobs are at risk
基本/背景資料：2百多家店面，.....
Homebase
Thousands of jobs are at risk after struggling British retailer Homebase is sold by its Australian owner.
2018年5月21日 星期一
Britain is looking to Australia for help on a rival to the EU's €10bn Galileo project
The UK is aiming to build its own satellite navigation system with the help of Australia.
2018年5月12日 星期六
Britain’s delusions about the green belt... Rent control sounds appealing but is counter-productive
Just one thing stands between a housing-starved Britain and these wise proposals: politics
Britain’s delusions about the green belt cause untold misery
To solve its housing crisis, the country must learn to love the urban
ECONOMIST.COM
The Economist
Rent control does not necessarily benefit those most in need. It would make more sense to build some houses
Rent control sounds appealing but is counter-productive
Rent control is likely to make California’s housing problems even worse
ECONOMIST.COM
2018年5月10日 星期四
“Absolute Hell” explores the freedoms and the fragilities of 1940s London
Absolute Hell
An intoxicating plunge into post-war Soho.
Bomb-blasted London. A Soho den in the hangover from World War II, where members drink into the darkness, night after night. Lying, fighting and seducing, these lost souls and bruised lovers struggle from the rubble of war towards an unknown future.
Absolute Hell, Rodney Ackland’s extraordinarily provocative play, was condemned as ‘a libel on the British people’ when first performed in 1952. Now it emerges as an intoxicating plunge into post-war Soho; full of despair and longing.
https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/absolute-hell
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Hugh Marriner’s anxieties continue to resonate. His inability to impress his partner, his failure to find a sustainable career and the emasculating retreat to his mother’s spare bedroom will be uncomfortably familiar to a modern young audience
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